I'm definitely not trying to be the same version of Eric Thomas I was last year or the month before I'm definitely if you knew me 5 years ago you better take a picture cuz the only way you going to be able to prove that person existed is that you got film on it I will not be the same individual after 30 days I'm going to keep grow number one number one listen to me as you realize you are a priority here's what I want you to do moving forward I want you to strive for Perfection
now listen to me when we leave today whatever Yahweh is said about us I want us to do it so we'll start here let's go again we'll start here whatever God has saying to you I want you to do it number one strive for perfection in everything that sound like God no no no no no no no y'all not hearing what I'm saying when you leave today lead and I'm just giving my age I could say Ford Fusion but I'm say escort can you stop being a Ford Escort we know you capable of being one
can you stop being a cutless sier I know I'm telling my age Cutler sier can we can you stop being a Cutler Sierra can you stop being a suburban and can you leave here and between you and God whatever the highest level he has for you can you start reaching for [Music] that oh come on can somebody hear what I'm saying God didn't wait for your daddy to make you a priority before he made you a priority God didn't wait on your mama before he made he said before your your mama knew you were in
her womb I called you you are a priority before your mama even knew you were in the womb I didn't wait for some doctor to tell her you were she was pregnant before I made you your problem is you don't know that you're a priority here's what I want you to ask yourself when are you going to finally level up now write that down when you going to level up when you going to level up Jer Jeremy you said it it was a version of the car that was a junk car and there was a
version of a car that was a classic when you going to level up you got Classic on in you and the owner is ready to Classic you out the reason why you hadn't been classic out cuz you keep telling the owner no I'm waiting for somebody else to make me a priority he like oh okay let me know let me know when you ain't looking for a man to make you a priority no more and you want you want to make the Alpha and Omega make you a priority let me know when you ready for
me to when you going to level up huh God told me to say to youday when you going to level up listen to me I told you you're not an animal you're not the trees you not insects you was made on the sixth day even in creation you was a priority ain't nobody all the other ones he just saying let there be and let there be and let there be and let there be when he made you he said come on y'all let us I didn't hear no us with whales I just heard let there
be and it was I didn't hear no us with with eagles it's just let there be and Eagles are bad and whales are bad but when he made us he said come on everybody it's going to take all three of us to do this one oh you just missed what I said that was your that was your that was your that's that's your freedom from being raped that was your freedom to say cuz you still on he took from me that was your freedom right there that that he knew everything that was going to happen
and even though you looking at it bad he knew it was going to be you still on what happened to you it's not it's over I made this mistake no let us make your problem is you every day you sitting there talking about who you are based on your mistake and you not talking about you based on the three coming together and creating you that's where your focus needs to be that you let us make man in our image after our [Music] likeness you are priority sh I know you want your mama's favorite but you
are God's priority I know you want your daddy's favorite come on how many of you just be honest raise your hand I I grew up in a house my biological father didn't grw up in a house with me we had that kind of relationship let me just see your hand be honest just put your hands up I just wasn't even in the same house as my y yeah come on put keep your hands up how many of y'all me and my father we don't even have that kind of relationship let me just see [Music] that
and you know why God didn't take a chance on your priority to a [Music] human oh come on can somebody hear what I'm saying God didn't wait for your daddy to make you a priority before he made you a priority God didn't wait on your mama before made he said before your mama knew you were in her womb I called you you are a priority before your mama even knew you were in the womb I didn't wait for some doctor to tell her you were she was pregnant before I made you your problem is you
don't know that you a priority and you walk Joseph you walk different when you know Rachel I could just imagine in those seven years Rachel was walking around like this Nigro working for me look at all that work he doing my dad putting that boy to work work he got a motivation better get on your grind Oh My My My I could just imagine how she was just walking around like y yep yep yep yep Let Me Get Ready Get Ready Get ready this boy love me this he in the fifth year he ain't quit
yet my my my heyen God's not waiting for a human to do it he did it already amen that's why he made you last that's why he gave you the gifts he gave you and you're too busy taking your gifts and asking what other humans think about the gifts that God has given you you so worried about how your gifts good Psalms 139:14 I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous keep it right there keep it right there don't stop don't stop let them look at that get that in your get
that in your spirit amen you're not an accident amen yes you might have messed up and yes they may or may not forgive you and yes they might fire you and yes they may not ever bring you back and yes they might treat you some type of way cuz they not whatever go back to Psalms 13914 bump what they say about you what does God say God says for I fearfully and wonderfully made you marvelous are my works that my soul knoweth right well yeah are you there you better stop worrying about what man think
about what God has done we all made mistakes we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God we all have met we all have done stuff with that ain't got nothing that's not who you are you are wonderful I'm sorry you are fearful God Made You fearfully God what is he afraid of God what do he what what is he meticulous about God why does he need to worry about structure and Order God I don't make no mistakes but yet because he loves you so much even when he made you he was
fearful I got I can't mess up oh that's right I got to get this right this is my greatest creation of yet this the last one right here sh let's let's let's fear fearfully either the word is right or it's lying fearfully when you do something fearfully there's a level of honor and respect there a value you place on something when you do it fear I was a kid and we played marbles them crazy looking marbles we just throw them jokers but those marbles that them Crystal boys them ones that cost $2 and you had
to rake leaves for those Jokers oh when we did those it was the the left eye was closed it was on some fearful boy cuz if your boy get that he can keep that it I had a whole little I had the three finger oh come on y'all I didn't I didn't the crazy looking marbles we was just po po but when you did that four5 boys everybody would come around the playground o ET going up against Mike for the oh everybody girls was around the fellas was around you got Street creative you got you
could do the and I I probably shouldn't be saying it's in church but I kept my marbles in that purple bag fear fear you were you weren't you weren't rushed you weren't rushed you weren't rushed you weren't an afterthought you were fearfully and wonderfully made hug yourself right now say I'm say it I'm fearful fearfully and wonderfully made hug yourself hug yourself come on come on hug yourself and say it come on especially those of you who waiting on somebody waiting on somebody else to tell you you valuable before you think you valuable somebody else
to invite you somewhere or do something some of us have so I had I walked around so long with low self-esteem you know worrying about what other people thought I wanted them to affirm me and value me and I'll be doing some dumb stuff so I could get they just hug yourself and say I'm fearfully and wonderfully made wonderfully I'm God's priority God priority come on I'm God's priority God's priority come on I'm God's priority God's and The Best Is Yet To Come And The Best Is Yet To Come eyes have not seen eyes have
not seen ears have not heard ears have not heard neither neither has it entered has it entered into the heart of man God's idea for me I am the head I am the head and not not to tell not to tell I am above I am above and not beneath not Ben this is the year to level up y'all level up in your relationships level up in our health level up in our emotional and mental Space level up financially level up in our business this is the year to level up y'all why because it's all
we already wired to do it no I need you to hear what I'm saying we about to get out of here I need you to understand before you leave today no matter what has happened to you no matter what somebody said to you no matter what somebody did to you I need you to walk away knowing you a one of one here's why I need you to know you a one of one because if you're going to make a a god of a priority and you're going to go forward from this day forward the only
way you going to turn heads and get God's attention from his people for him is that you going to have to stri let's go back I want to let's go over it again Rose r i want to go over it again right right put this in your phone here's what God wants you to do strive for Perfection don't mean you got to be perfect but strive for it people tell me all the time oh you got this thing this image you trying to be 1,00% I'm trying to be perfect 1,00% I it don't mean I'm
not trying to dog you out I'm not judging you I don't even think I'm better than you but I am striving for Perfection I am I'm definitely not trying to be the same version of Eric Thomas I was last year or the month before I'm definitely if you knew me 5 years ago you better take a picture cuz the only way you going to be able to prove that person existed is that you got got film on it I will not be the same individual after 30 days I'm going to keep grow number one number
one listen to me as you realize you are a priority here's what I want you to do moving forward I want you to strive for Perfection now listen to me when we leave today whatever Yahweh is said about us I want us to do it so we'll start here let's go again we'll start here whatever God is saying to you I want you to do it number one strive for perfection in everything that sound like God no no no no no no no y'all not hearing what I'm saying when you leave today lead and I'm
just giving my age I could say for Fusion but I'm say escort can you stop being a for escort we know you capable of being one can you stop being a cutless Sierra I know I'm telling my age here Cutler Sierra can we can you stop being a Cutler Sierra can you stop being a suburban and can you leave here and between you and God whatever the highest level he has for you can you start reaching for that some of y'all you not getting close to the vision you didn't said the vision and your mama
said something about it so you didn't backed off you didn't said something about the vision and somebody tried to kill you and you didn't backed off are you hearing what I'm trying to tell you I'm telling you that you got to be possessed with the vision before God unleashed the Vision in Joseph God had to put him alone by himself in a dark place y'all better do me a favor y'all better stop whining when you get hit with a little cancer you acting like you about to die how you about to die in The Vision
ain't even been done yet you can't die you acting like you acting like your whole life is over cuz you got hit with something yay though I walk is it is it real or you just saying it on the weekend y he though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil why the vision got to be done before I get up out of here before I leave this earth the vision got to be done I was talking to my my publisher you know not my publisher but I got
another guy that's helping me push the book and you know he was like Eric you need to do this and you need to do this and you need to do this and I said stop already what all these plans wait say I thought you said you wanted to make the New York Times best tell I do or then we need to do this I said we don't need to do none of that we need to pray do you understand that if we talk to God if you told me that the algorithm is 12,000 people to
buy the book do you understand if we pray and we talk to God in one single minute God can tell 12,000 people all at the darkg on exact time they need to push this button they need to get two all your little plans all your little stuff God don't need none of that he just needs a Joseph that no matter what you're going through you're not going to switch up on God no matter oh you better hear what I'm saying no matter what you're going through you ain't going to change on God whatever you do
your your vocabulary ain't going to change your words ain't going to change you ain't going to switch up once God know you ain't going to switch up come on somebody listen to me I need to do me a favor take off those worldly glasses take off those corporate glasses stop leaning into your own understanding and in all your ways acknowledge Him and let him bring fourth division I'm just trying to tell you he just I'm telling you when God got a vision when God got a vision when God got my mama was 17 y'all Robert
Taylor my mom was 17 years old my mom said she was walking through the and the guy jumped out to try to chase her and grabbed her and I they threw me on the ground in the snow and she was tussling with my man and she said out of nowhere C driver came out who just happened to have a gun and jumped out the car and said ma'am are you okay come get in the cab where you going the the brother that attacked my mother didn't know God had a vision for me brother stop what
you doing matter of fact hey I know your cab don't supposed to come in this neighborhood but I got my vision on the south side of Chicago and somebody's trying to mess up my vision and I need you to hurry up and go get that woman cuz she going to have my vision and I need to make sure my vision is protected and cared for you run around here trying to protect yourself God got you he got the vision don't worry about cancer that doctor don't know nothing they [Music] practicing that's what they call it
a practice you you run around here believing they word instead of the report of the Lord so God has a vision let going tell y'all something if you really want to be happy get in that Vision you think a car going to make you happy I promise you it won't you think a house going to make you think status you think you think you think I promise you I promise you you get in that Vision you going to sleep so well at night praise God let's go to the next one I want to show you'all
something where there's no vision so so so so so in order for you y'all so blessed to be in this place sometimes you know sometimes when we are with the men and women of God we just get so comfortable with them I see it happen all the time I ain't trying to dog nobody out but I see it sometimes in my church amen I see people who are very close to me and they still can't get past $50,000 and I see strangers who listen to me and making $10 million I'm like how you how you
eating with me and you [Music] broke we fellowshipping and you broke you didn't call me and told me your car broke down you grown in Christ you know the Bible amen but what you don't want to do is you don't want to listen to the man or the woman of God the person that God has appointed for you you oh come on y'all I was doing a podcast for my book and I told the dude you got to hurry up I got to drive to Chicago we just pull up at 205 we just pulled up
4our drive we just pulled up from the city we just got here y'all I got here because the man of God call and I said if the man of God call what he's done for me I got to come in and I got to let the people know who they sitting with who they under who what's going on not so we can just glorify men but you can get your stuff so you can't you got to stop calling people asking them can you borrow some money when you when you should be buying people cars you
should be buying a fleet of cars to take care of folks you not amen God's giving you a vision amen but that doesn't mean that you going to do everything by yourself and so what God said to me I gave you 50,000 online and I'm connecting you with somebody that's already know what the what a mega church is already about is that make sense the structure in the plan does that make sense okay let me make it simple for you God is saying that you need your field Jackson Michael Jordan oh no Mike Mike's Mike's
Vision was never shoed that wasn't his vision Mike's Vision was never Gatorade or McDonald's that's not what he said when he was drafted he never said that Mike's Vision was I want to make Chicago a winning franchise like Boston and like the Lakers that's the vision I want to win multiple championships and I want everybody to want to come to Chicago and I want Chicago Bulls to go up there with the Lakers in Boston and alone he could not do that who is your je throw humble yourself who do you need to sit under who
is God already blessed who is God already anointed who is why are you trying to spend 20 years learning something that somebody in your circle already knows are you hearing what I'm saying let your ego go let your pride go humble yourself and sit under the man or woman of God that God has already designed for you [Music]